As Twitchy reported, on Thursday, Reuters tweeted this photo of a Guatemalan mother begging a solider to let her into the United States.
Reuters photo captures Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let her enter U.S https://t.co/E088sJjSsG pic.twitter.com/EDfzluASe0
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 26, 2019
That was enough to elicit plenty of responses about America’s inhumane policies at the border, but those few who actually clicked through to and read the article learned that the soldier was a member of Mexico’s National Guard; not only that, the story adds that the guardsman advised them against making the trip but didn’t impede their progress.
The next day CBS News tweeted about the dramatic photo capturing a migrant mom pleading with a border guard to let her enter the U.S. with her son, again, leaving out that this was the Mexican National Guard and the photo-op happened in Mexico.
It’s been two days now and Reuters is still milking that dramatic photo and even offering another angle in which you can actually see the guardsman’s armband; they still couldn’t find a place in the allotted 280 characters, though, to inform readers this was not the U.S. Border Patrol.
A Guatemalan mother begged and pleaded with the National Guard to let them cross the U.S. border after traveling with her son some 1,500 miles from Guatemala https://t.co/7ztgromqbd pic.twitter.com/BCfxJ4VMtG
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 27, 2019
Whose National Guard? https://t.co/9LKlgSYljh
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 27, 2019
Not ours.
— Ida Mae ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@chezidamae) July 27, 2019
Help, we have no idea why nobody trusts what we tell them anymore.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 27, 2019
The press wants the immigration crisis to play out in photographs that opportunists like Sen. Chuck Schumer can have enlarged and on display on an easel on the House floor the next day 1) to prove how inhumane the Trump administration’s immigration policies are 2) highlight that the Democrats have no plan whatsoever other than open borders.
That is not a US National Guard troop. Stop implying it was.
— Bo Phillips (@bo_phillips_) July 27, 2019
"The" National Guard. pic.twitter.com/Lc7ZAqHmqq
— MJ Tomko (@Tomko_1) July 27, 2019
Reuters, whose national guard is that? Doesn't look American ?♂️
— Marcus Hamilton (@MarcusHamiltonZ) July 27, 2019
“National Guard”
— Ed Kirwan (@EKDramatist) July 27, 2019
This is a Mexican guard.
— Gabby (@gkc_11) July 27, 2019
How many times you gonna re-up this tweet without bothering to include "Mexican" in front of National Guard?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 27, 2019
The Mexican National Guard. My God…
— Phil Hardy (@EsqHardy) July 27, 2019
MEXICAN National Guard….
— BobD (@BobDurocher5) July 27, 2019
Adding “Mexican” to “National Guard” seems to be an impossible feat for Reuters.
— Thach Weave (@thatchweave) July 27, 2019
Say it with me . . . Mexico. National. Guard.#FakeNews
— Flint ??♂️????? (@tulliveer) July 27, 2019
This lie is so blatant.
— Shelley Duncan (@shelleythink) July 27, 2019
Pretty sneaky headline @Reuters.
Three types of lies:
Commission
Influence
Omission
I spot at least two in this headline alone.— @heuristic_light (@heuristic_light) July 27, 2019
That’s the Mexican National Guard finally stopping the migrant nonsense.
— We Are All Trolling ? (@WeGovernUSA) July 27, 2019
They’re supposed to be stepping up efforts to control the border in exchange for threatened tariffs not materializing.
Mexico, not being Guatemala, means that she has in fact successfully fled Guatemala.
— CamperWatcher27 (@CamperWatcher27) July 27, 2019
Photographed from every angle, like a hollywood explosion.
— Strawman-san (@strawman_chan) July 27, 2019
Wow, that lady looks sad. We should let her break the law because she is sad.
— ChocolateStarWars (@KhajiitMonk) July 27, 2019
Totally staged
— Jules Verne (@poolsadie) July 27, 2019
Can’t get enough of this story, can you?
— WhiskyMonk (@WhiskyMonk) July 27, 2019
Even Reuters admits in its story that the photo has gone viral, as that’s the point:
Ledy Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the United States.
The plight of this mother and son who had traveled some 1,500 miles (2,410 km) from their home country of Guatemala to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, only to be stopped mere feet from the United States, was captured by Reuters photographer Jose Luis Gonzalez as twilight approached on Monday.
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One of several images Reuters published of the scene, the photo was picked up widely on social media. It has thrown into the spotlight the role Mexico’s militarized National Guard police force is playing in containing migration, mostly from Central America.
You know Trump is doing a pretty good job as President when people are literally pleading with armed soldiers just to get in knowing that they’ll be detained in “concentration camps” on the other side.
— MJ Tomko (@Tomko_1) July 27, 2019
You claim to have traveled some 1,500 miles to reach the U.S., but we feel compelled to tell you when you arrive there you’ll find the water fountains are mounted on top of the toilets — you might want to turn back.
You cannot fault the soldier for doing his job.. It's not his decision to make..
— Slice Calderon (@SliceCalderon) July 27, 2019
You can call him a Nazi, though. Guess there are Mexican Nazis now.
Reuters making another run at this bullshit story after it didn’t get the reaction they’d hoped for.
The mainstream media is dogshit.
— Shane (@EodKalEl) July 27, 2019
We knew at least one Democrat would have that photo of the drowned father and daughter up on an easel the next day and we were right; it made the front page of the New York Times as well. Maybe TIME will Photoshop President Trump in place of the Mexican soldier and do another fake “Welcome to America” cover.
Related:
‘Fake News in real time’: Reuters’ tweet showing ‘Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let her enter U.S.’ is missing some important context https://t.co/XoVsYkS6ha
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 26, 2019
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